Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) [Illustration: frontispiece] THE WORKS OF CHARLES PAUL DE KOCK _The Barber of Paris_ TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY EDITH MARY NORRIS The C. T. Brainard Publishing Co. Boston New York COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY THE FREDERICK J. QUINBY COMPANY _All rights reserved_ _LOUIS E. CROSSCUP Printer Boston, Mass., U. S. A._ CONTENTS VOLUME I CHAPTER I PAGE The Barber's House 1 CHAPTER II The Great Nobleman and the Barber 14 CHAPTER III Blanche. A History of Sorcerers 35 CHAPTER IV The Chevalier Chaudoreille 54 CHAPTER V The Music Lesson 74 CHAPTER VI The Lovers. The Gossips 87 CHAPTER VII Intrigues Thicken 106 CHAPTER VIII Conversation by the Fireside 129 CHAPTER IX The Closet. The Abduction 140 CHAPTER X The Little House. A New Game 155 CHAPTER XI The Pont-Neuf. Tabarin 177 CHAPTER XII A Nocturnal Adventure 189 CHAPTER XIII The Tete-a-Tete 198 CHAPTER XIV Ursule and the Sorcerer of Verberie 218 CHAPTER XV Love and Innocence. A Shower of Rain and the Talisman 239 CHAPTER XVI How Will It End 260 VOLUME II CHAPTER I Who Could Have Expected It? 1 CHAPTER II Happy Moments 23 CHAPTER III A Day with Chaudoreille 38 CHAPTER IV The Little Supper 54 CHAPTER V Having Money and Power One May Dare Everything 74 CHAPTER VI The Rendezvous. Strokes of Fortune. The Hotel de Bourgogne. The Sedan Chair 102 CHAPTER VII Poor Urbain 126 CHAPTER VIII The Chateau de Sarcus 135 CHAPTER IX The Meeting. Projects of Revenge 164 CHAPTER X The Little Closet Again 183 CHAPTER XI